This artwork, produced by the pseudo-artist Mia Salvato, examines & reimagines a set of historical images, from the collection of the Archive of Modern Conflict, which were taken by an unnamed US policeman in the 1960s, who produced erotic images of black women in his spare time. By juxtaposing/overlaying image & test print used for chemical/color control in C-type analogue printing machines (reminding us of police identity lines, pantone charts & early ethno-anthropological photography), they open up a debate about the politicisation of the representation of the female body, the synchronous histories of anthropology & colonialism & their intersection with the practice of photography, as well as the ethical question related to issues around informed consent, privacy, copyright, representation & anonymity in photography.
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